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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The excess of farm workers arriving in California in the 1930s was good for the farmers because it did what?
(a) Drove wages down.
(b) Drove prices up.
(c) Drove wages up.
(d) Drove prices down.

2. What is the County Seat of Texas County and largest city in the Oklahoma Panhandle?
(a) Boise City.
(b) Guymon.
(c) Tulsa.
(d) Oklahoma City.

3. The Tehachapi Mountains lead directly into what valley in California?
(a) San Joaquin Valley.
(b) Antelope Valley.
(c) Sacramento Valley.
(d) Death Valley.

4. What is one of the insults described in the text which were used against Okie children?
(a) They were intoxicated.
(b) They were illegal immigrants.
(c) They were Germans.
(d) They were sub-human.

5. How far does the Tehachapi Mountain Range extend?
(a) 25 miles.
(b) 40 miles.
(c) 100 miles.
(d) 50 miles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Many cruel farmers would pour what on surplus food or burn it rather than give it to the starving Okies?

2. What city in Kern County, California is located 31 miles north-northwest of Bakersfield?

3. The Okie squatter diet consisted largely of boiled cabbage and what?

4. What were the squatter communities of the Okies come to be known as?

5. Frequently the wind in the Dust Bowl blew more than how many miles per hour?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Okies travel through the Mojave Desert? Why?

2. How did the Okies travel west? What was their principle means of transportation?

3. What did the Federal Government do to help the Okies? When?

4. What physical dangers existed due to the dust storms in the Dust Bowl? What sickness arose?

5. Where did the Okie children face some hope in the end of Chapter 4: "Okies, Go Home!"?

6. Where was the geographical region known as the Dust Bowl? What did the dust do to the farms?

7. Where did the Okie families camp on their journey west? What food did they eat?

8. What stereotypes were the Okies identified by? What happened to Okies who tried to defend themselves?

9. How did the dust get into the houses of the farmers of the Dust Bowl? How did people protect themselves?

10. What did the Oklahoma Panhandle look like by 1936? What change took place at that time?

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